Meet stringers from around the world, USA, Brazil, UK Europe, South Africa, Taiwan and Singapore so far. Discuss product development with the Brands. Learn and have a lot of fun!
Short facts
- Location: PTN Tennis Academy in Bardolino, Italy
- When: 11. – 14. October
- Costs:
ERSA Member 99€
ERSA e-Members 149€
Non-Member 229€
- Virtual Symposium:
Costs: ERSA Member FREE
Non-Member 75€ (including 1 year e-Membership)
Short Schedule
Friday:
- 20:00 – Welcome Cocktail
Saturday:
- 09:00 – 19:00 – Presentations, Workshops, Racquet and String Testing
Sunday:
- 09:00 – 19:00 – Presentations, Workshops, Racquet and String Testing
Monday:
- 09:00 – 13:00 Certification Testing
Sign-up Sheet can be downloaded via: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TsErL9F3YzOmreI2RWr4RalgypdaPdNy/
Registration to mark@ersa-stringers.com
Some more facts:
- Meet stringers from around the world and share your knowledge.
- Product presentations from the marketing and R&D departments of the major brands.
- Test the latest stringing and tuning equipment. Test racquets and strings coming out the next year.
- Workshops covering stringing, tuning, tournament stringing, starting a business, social media and marketing and more.
- Private lessons to improve your skills.
- Certification testing in tennis, badminton and squash.
- Raffel with great prizes.
- Famous Goodie Bags with dozens of test strings, grips and more.
Brands coming:
- Babolat
- Diadem
- Dunlop
- Tecnifibre
- Yonex
- MSV
- Kimony
- Luxilon
- Solinco
- Stringlab
- Völkl
- Metorlab
- A new Natural Gut Producer from Brazil
Presentations and workshops:
- New products from all the brands
- Making Natural Gut
- New Tecnfibre Machine
- Stringing with Natural Gut
- How to make your own string brand
- Custom painting
- Tournament stringing (incl. Workshop with Babolat)
- New tournament software from RacketPedia
- Pro-t-one Custom Made Rackets
- Pro-T-one machines
- Mew model racket and string testing on-court
Schedule
Friday:
- 20:00 Welcome Drink in the Cafe at the PTN Tennis Academy
Saturday:
- 9:00 Welcome to all the members and plans for the weekend and ERSA news
- 9:30 Tecnifibre Presentation – New Products
- 10:30 Babolat Presentation – New Products
- 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:30 MSV Italy – Product Introduction
- 12:00 Racquet painting and branding products for your business – Thierry Goor
- 12:30 Stringlab – Voelkl Racquets – Luigi Bortone
- 13:00 Lunch Break
- 14:00 Producing Natural Gut strings – Brazil – Victor Menizzi
- 14:45 Metortune – Racquet tuning with Metortune machine
- 15:15 Luxilon – Products and product development- Thierry Beyltiens
- 16:00 Coffee break
- 16:30 Free private lessons with our managers – sign up at the symposium
- 17:00 Babolat Tournament Stringing Simulation
- 17:00 PTN Academy – Racquet and string testing
Sunday:
- 9:00 Diadem – Product presentation
- 9:30 Tecnifibre presentation – New X-Cord Stringing Machine
- 10:30 HighString – Product presentation
- 11:00 Coffee Break
- 11:30 Solinco – Product Introduction
- 12:15 RacketPedia – New Tournament Software
- 13:00 Lunch Break
- 14:00 Q & A with Gabriele Medri & Mark Maslowski
- 14:45 Stringing Natural Gut – Mark Maslowski
- 15:30 Pro-T-One – Testing Machines -Gabriele Medri
- 16:30 Free Private Lessons with our managers- sign up at the Symposium
- 16:30 Metortune Tuning Demos at their table
- 17:00 PTN Academy – Racquet and String Testing
Monday:
- 9:00 Private Lessons and Certification Testing
- 9:00 Racquet and String Testing
- 13:00 End